As of around 4 p.m. today, city work crews and contractors are dealing with as many as 95 water mains that have busted in Baltimore City and County due to the ongoing frigid cold spell.
That count comes courtesy of the Baltimore City Department of Public Works’ new interactive water-main repair mapping tool, which displays confirmed broken water mains, water mains under repair and the ones that DPW has successfully fixed. City and county water customers can also search their address to pinpoint where the nearby broken pipe is that’s messed with their water service.
DPW rolled out the tool on Friday following a frustrating, extremely chilly few days that most direly left thousands without running water, and froze whole intersections (and cars) in ice from water that spewed from broken pipes. The map was introduced as a way for customers “to know what’s happening in their neighborhood, and to be able to find this information on the web,” DPW Director Rudy Chow said in a statement.
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